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Insanely cool. Dying Earth type things always struck me as weird but I've come to appreciate them. Lets you take the best elements of science fiction and fantasy. Feels like Lucas borrowed a lot from this for Star Wars (energy swords, etc). Love Tomb the Dwarf swinging an axe in an 11-foot-tall exoskeleton.
RIP all the dead sloths. ...more
RIP all the dead sloths. ...more
If J.G. Ballard had been inspired to write a fantasy novel in the vein of Michael Moorcock he may well have written something like this. It’s slight (139 pages) but comes with some fantastic imagery and ideas. I would recommend it as a book that challenges the notion of the heroic fantasy novel as opposed to being a bona fide classic of the genre itself.
It was first published in 1971, back in those hedonistic days when a lot of sword-&-sorcery was being marketed under the maturer banner of scien ...more
It was first published in 1971, back in those hedonistic days when a lot of sword-&-sorcery was being marketed under the maturer banner of scien ...more
Dec 11, 2016
Greg
marked it as to-read
